TEACHING

Over the past eleven years, Helen has gained experience teaching students from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and abilities.  She has taught life skills to young adults with learning difficulties in Stroud, England, basic literacy to adults at Stroud Basic Skills Centre, English as a foreign language to Japanese adults and children from as young as one year old, poetry writing and performance in schools and adult writers' groups, and psychology and sociology to undergraduates at the University of the West of England, the University of Exeter and the University of Bath.  To date, her university-based teaching has focused on social psychology, developmental psychology, qualitative research methods and introductory social analysis.  She has worked both as an assistant lecturer and on her own.  As well as lecturing to large groups, she has run workshops and seminars for groups from five to fifty students strong.  From January 2008, she began work in her current position, teaching psychology undergraduates and MSc students social psychology and qualitative research methods at the University of Bath, England.  To read more about Helen's various teaching positions, go to the Curriculum Vitae page in the Academia section of this website.